I’m 14, I’m the eight-thousanders, and their first absolute and winter conquest, marked the history of mountaineering.
From 3 June 1950, the day of the world premiere on theAnnapurna, the first eight-thousander conquered in historymore than 36 years have passed during which the greatest mountaineers of all times and everywhere have measured themselves, absolutely or with the rigors of winter, with that mythical and mystical measure, the 8,000 metres.
The story of the conquest of the 8000m peaks: all the premieres, absolute and winter
Here then, mountain by mountain, the story of the conquest of the 8000m peaks and their thin air: the gallery is in chronological order based on the absolute premiere of each mountain, deliberately leaving K2 for last, ascent to the summit for the first time in July 1954 by mythical Italian expedition of Achille Compagnoni and Lino Lacedelli led by Ardito Desiobut still to be conquered in winter.
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